Klicka på en bild för att gå till Google Book Search.
Laddar... New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Timeav Gail Sheehy
Ingen/inga Laddar...
Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. It's a good read. It helped me understand the plight of others at different points in their lives and gave me insight and tips as to what I can expect. In all, I liked her first passages book the best. Still glad I read both! ( ) New Passages by Gail Sheehy is a book of ideas about growing older. It looks at the First Adulthood as a time when people spread their wings. They are competitive, daring, and strive to make their mark in society. It’s a time when women are most fertile. It’s therefore best for families to have children before they are older. During this period there is focus on one’s career development. Before this period it was only the predominantly white males who labored in the workforce. Presently it’s men and women who are the breadwinners. Women have come a long way since the 1950s, and many were able to obtain a college education. This achievement has made them especially competitive. They have just become the backbone of their household, while supporting their husbands, and family members at home. In the Second Adulthood that starts at age 45, men and women are becoming more established in their careers. This is the time that unexpected events begin to happen. It could be sickness, divorce, loss of a spouse, remarriage, or being laid off from work. It becomes a challenge to adjust to these setbacks, so some workers have to switch gears, and find new vocations. Families change into non-traditional ones with blended households. Later in life, women become independent and more assertive after menopause. At this time in their 60s they might have the responsibility for caring for an ailing spouse, and even their own parents. People are living longer. In later life Sheehy talks about those who begin new hobbies, travel, or decide to live alone. The author described how some women become sexually liberated. Wise women mentor younger ones. Their fulfillment is enhanced by their adoption of new approaches to life. Some on this quest lead them to be more spiritual. Women become members of groups that meet to support other women. They discuss issues concerning the dreams, and future of their lives. The book New Passages is however dated, since it was published in 1996. It gives information about the benefits of estrogen for women that have since been known to cause cancer. Sheehy seems to focus on the well-to-do in the society. Individuals the writer used in her case studies were people of the upper class and professionals. The work would have been more appealing if it had surveyed a broader cross section of respondents. Any mention about blue-collar workers was rather limited. Sheehy offers an interesting categorization of life stages in the context of American life as she has known it and lived it. She uses excerpts from the hundreds of interviews she conducted throughout the United States while preparing this book to prove her theory. Her stages have catchy labels: Tryout Twenties, Turbulent Thirties, Flourishing Forties, Flaming Fifties, Serene Sixties. Sheehy's attempt to make meaning of the mature years is most likely to become an artifact of its era, unable to cross cultures or time. Her passages depend too heavily on life as it is being lived in the 1990s in the United States of America. With the work of Erikson and Jung on developmental aging already on the book shelf and thoughtful contributions by such as Friedan, Schacter-Shalomi and Miller, and others, Sheehy's contribution is disappointing. (March 1995) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Prestigefyllda urval
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Millions of readers literally defined their lives through Gail Sheehy's landmark bestseller Passages. Seven years ago she set out to write a sequel, but instead she discovered a historic revolution in the adult life cycle. . . People are taking longer to grow up and much longer to die. A fifty-year-old woman--who remains free of cancer and heart disease-- can expect to see her ninety-second birthday. Men, too, can expect a dramatically lengthened life span. The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood--beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty-five--are hopelessly out of date. In New Passages, Gail Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely new frontier--a Second Adulthood in middle life. "Stop and recalculate," Sheehy writes. "Imagine the day you turn forty-five as the infancy of another life." Instead of declining, men and women who embrace a Second Adulthood are progressing through entirely new passages into lives of deeper meaning, renewed playfulness, and creativity--beyond both male and female menopause. Through hundreds of personal and group interviews, national surveys of professionals and working-class people, and fresh findings extracted from fifty years of U.S. Census reports, Sheehy vividly dramatizes these newly developing stages. Combining the scholar's ability to synthesize data with the novelist's gift for storytelling, she allows us to make sense of our own lives by understanding others like us. New Passages tells us we have the ability to customize our own life cycle. This groundbreaking work is certain to awaken and permanently alter the way we think about ourselves. "SHEEHY CLEARLY STATES IDEAS ABOUT LIFE THAT HAVE NEVER BEFORE BEEN AS CLEARLY STATED." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "AN OPTIMISTIC ANALYSIS OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN PESSIMISTIC TIMES. . . It is grounded in the economic and psychological realities that make adult life so complex today." --The New York Times Book Review Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
Pågående diskussionerIngen/ingaPopulära omslag
Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.24Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Age groups Early adulthoodKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
Är det här du? |